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How to Handle Haters: Advice from 3 Resilient Entrepreneurs

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After I retired, my wife and family wanted me to take a predictable, boring agency job. I explained that if I failed , I could always go back to boring agency work like many of my fellow retirees—to do that would have been an existential death. Bruce Cameron. 54; executive coach and federal prison consultant; Dallas.

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Ep 243: Nicole Grinnell on Delegation and Unlocking Your Productivity Potential

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All those traditional holiday things, go to the plaza, just walk through go through the park. Nicole Grinnell 5:57 Yeah, so I’m the CEO that I was mainly supporting, actually retired. And so I started serving my COO for about five or 10 hours a week, he was retired. Jeremy Burrows 2:49 Nice.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

3) Work with temping and recruiting agencies – all of them When you are looking for a job, contact every temp and recruiting agency in town. Sure, some of them might have the same jobs, but you will soon find that sometimes a company will only work with one specific agency. Job hunting is a numbers and timing game.

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

After only 2 weeks, I found a great company through a staffing agency and the position was full time working for a wonderful CEO. Keep in mind, the role of a staffing agency/HR is to work for the company and to protect the CEO/client, their company, and their business, and their money.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

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Time to think about the retirement fund.&# “We get to retire? No one ever told me that…&# We both know there’s no retirement fund in what we do. Holiday Season Kicks Off – 2 Weeks in Review! But when Deb mentioned the words ‘retirement fund’ and I actually barked a laugh, I started to think. (A

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